Bug 1289816 (CVE-2015-8567, CVE-2015-8568)
| Summary: | CVE-2015-8567 CVE-2015-8568 Qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakage | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Prasad Pandit <ppandit> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | abaron, ailan, amit.shah, apevec, areis, ayoung, berrange, cfergeau, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, dallan, drjones, dwmw2, gkotton, imammedo, itamar, jen, jforbes, jjoyce, jschluet, kbasil, knoel, lhh, lpeer, markmc, m.a.young, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, pbonzini, rbryant, rjones, rkrcmar, sclewis, slong, srevivo, tdecacqu, virt-maint, virt-maint, vkuznets, xen-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
A memory-leak flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support. The flaw occurred when a guest repeatedly tried to activate the VMXNET3 device. A privileged guest attacker could use this flaw to leak host memory, resulting in denial of service on the host.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:46:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1289817, 1289818 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1272163, 1288109 | ||
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Description
Prasad Pandit
2015-12-09 03:13:35 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1289817] Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1289818] Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of the kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. This issue affects the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Marvel Team. *** Bug 1272156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** qemu-2.4.1-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.5.2-7.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xen-4.5.2-7.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. qemu-2.3.1-11.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |